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I am attempting to lay out my financial path to semi-retirement (i.e. leaving my current w2 for something less time consuming/more enjoyable) within 10 years or less.I can identify my family's spending now and what I ...
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Hello everyone! My name is William Rose and I'm an 18 year old entrepreneur. Ever since I was in middle school I've been the kid trying to establish a business in one way or another, whether it was selling gums t...
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Peace to the forum. So my partner and I recently got pre-approved for 224k from a direct lender and he suggested that we get an FHA and put around 7k down on a property. The problem is we’re short on the money. I aske...
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With my relatively shallow experience as an investor, I realize what I have to offer anyone on my power team is small. So how do I go about building a relationship with a realtor? I’ve spoken to a few and they have ...
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As the title says I am wondering how to compete with all the cash buyers in my area. One of which owns over 90% of the apartment buildings as well as almost all commercial buildings in town. He also frequents the ci...
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I have seen so many post from people here on BP that are anti-guru. Most of those anti-guru posts, however, are written by either new or investors, or investors with only a few properties. Rarely do I see really succ...
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So my wife and I are buying our first rental. We live in Oregon and the real estate prices are so high that we would need an extremely large downpayment in order to get our payments down to the point of making 2X our ...
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I am investing $450,000 for my father. He wants income & is happy with a 6%-8% return.
He only wants newer real estate (-7 years) be it a SFR or condo's. They have to be in our general area.
He is open to financi...
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Receiving a huge tax refund this yr. It will be just enough to buy a cheap foreclosed home,I won't have any money left to do any rehabing on it. With bad credit and no revenue or collateral from my business will I st...
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I've never purchased anything other than a SFH, and I'm currently eyeing a few deals on 20-30 unit apartment buildings, which puts me into the realm of commercial lending for the first time in my life. For this scena...